Journal of Rural Mental Health
The current issue of the JRMH is now available!
April 23, 2012: Volume 36 (1) Spring/Summer 2012 of the Journal of Rural Mental Health is now posted. To access, please click on the "current" link at the top of the homepage and then click "pdf" at the right.
Vol 36 (1) 2012 Table of Contents
Stressors and barriers to help seeking for psychological distress among students attending a rural university.
Susan J. Calloway, Frontier School of Midwifery and Family Nursing, University of Missouri Kansas City, MO
Patricia Kelly, School of Nursing, University of Missouri Kansas City, MO
Peggy Ward-Smith, School of Nursing, University of Missouri Kansas City, MO
Painting everybody with the same brush: Employment discrimination of persons with serious mental illness in rural places.
Karen L. Rebeiro Gruhl, PhD, Msc.O.t., O.T. Reg (ON). School of Rural and Northern Health, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario.
Carol Kauppi, PhD, Professor and MSW Program Coordinator, Northern CURA on Poverty, Homelessness, and Migration, Director, Centre for Research in Social Justice and Policy. Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario.
Phyllis Montgomery. PhD, School of Nursing, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario.
Susan James, PhD, Director, Midwifery, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario.
Rural court sentancing as a predictor or re-arrest rates for domestic-violence offenders.
Charlene Bruley, PhD, Director, Social Work Program. Minot State University, Minot, ND.
Julie Hatfield, Minot State University, Minot, ND.
Paul Markel, PhD, Minot State University, Minot, ND.
"You can talk to them. You can pray." Rural clergy responses to adolescents with mental health concerns.
Diana L. Jones, Laurel Cassidy, Craig Anne Hefinger
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ABOUT NARMH
The National Association for Rural Mental Health (NARMH) was founded in 1977 in order to develop and enhance rural mental health and substance abuse services and to support mental health providers in rural areas. NARMH has added two additional goals of proactively supporting initiatives that will strengthen the voices of rural consumers and their families and to develop and mentor the next generation of rural mental health leaders and researchers.
NARMH is a membership organization composed of organizations and individuals from across the United States (including Alaska and Hawaii) and a few foreign countries. NARMH's membership includes the entire spectrum of the rural mental health community: consumers, family members, practitioners, administrators, educators, researchers, and policy makers. A focus on and a commitment to rural people and their problems has always been the priority and unifying force in NARMH. This belief that "rural" comes first has allowed NARMH to be relatively free of the turf battles and guild issues that have so fragmented the general field of mental health.
NARMH, since its inception, has had a strong commitment to rural people and rural providers. This commitment has allowed NARMH to be focused on what it takes to provide quality services and meaningful research for rural consumers and providers alike. NARMH also has several core functions that include:
- Supplying high quality training opportunities for members and non-members through our annual conferences,
- Serving as an advocate for members and rural consumers,
- Articulating policy recommendations to improve accessibility, availability and acceptability of mental health services,
- Providing a forum for practitioners, researchers and consumers to network and dialogue through an annual, national conference,
- Disseminating best practices and research findings through our publication Rural Mental Health and on our web site.
- Offering leadership opportunities for the next generation of rural providers and researcher.
Please visit the National Association for Rural Mental Health website at www.narmh.org for more information about the orginization and national conferences.
Submission Guidelines and Manuscript Preparation
To submit a manuscript for review, please start by clicking on the "For Authors" link found at the lower left side of the JRMH homepage. The first or primary author must complete the registration information before continuing with the submission. Please save your logon information for future visits to the site.
Submission to Journal of Rural Mental Health assumes adherence to the anonymous peer review process. Final judgment is made by the editor, who relies on reviewers' recommendations.
Authors submitting manuscripts for possible publication in Rural Mental Health must abide by the following manuscript guidelines.
Manuscript Preparation
Journal of Rural Mental Health follows the guidelines of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 6th Edition.
General Formatting
- Double-space all parts of the manuscript, including abstract, quotes, references, and tables.
- The components of the manuscript should be arranged in the following order:
- Title Page
- Abstract
- Text of article
- Notes (however, place notes regarding grant support on the title page)
- Reference list
- Appendices (if any)
- Tables (if any)
- Figure titles & figures (if any)
- See the APA Publication Manual (6th Edition) for guidelines to citing other works in the text.
- See the APA Publication Manual (6th Edition) for guidelines to preparing end references.
Tables & Figures
- Figures must be high quality laser prints or camera-ready prints. Include one laser print or camera-ready print of each figure at the time of acceptance.
- Titles and notes to figures must be typed, double-spaced, on a separate manuscript page.
- Tables and figures should be kept to a minimum.
Manuscript Length
- Use one-inch margins and a 12-point type size. Type font should be clear and readable; unusual typefaces are discouraged.
- Together, abstract, text, references, and tables should total approximately 12-20 manuscript pages.
Electronic Version of Manuscript
- This is an online journal, therefore, all submission will be completed electronically.
Additional Items Required
- An abstract of between 75-125 words should precede the body of the paper. (See the APA Publication Manual).
- Immediately below the abstract, list up to six key words, in alphabetical order, by which the paper may be indexed.
- Brief note acknowledging grant assistance, and/or previous presentation may be placed at the bottom of the title page.